Posted on 05/17/2021 2:18:06 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Compare that with Pyongyang, the secretive capital of North Korea, where the cars are sharply defined and it's possible to make out individual people.
"We [Israel] would always prefer to be photographed at the lowest resolution possible", said Amnon Harari, head of space programmes at Israel's Defence Ministry last year, reported by Reuters.
"It's always preferable to be seen blurred, rather than precisely." "The initial motivation was scientific," says Michael Fradley, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford and one of the academics who successfully campaigned for the amendment to be changed.
"We needed access to high resolution over the Occupied Palestinian Territories comparable to what we use over other parts of the region."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Overhead images are blurred. Street view images appear to be ok.
It only hurts the Palis, not the Israelis.
It’s good.
That Google is even allowed to photograph Israel via satellite is a miracle itself.
Yes they have their own satellites.
Raquel Welch still looks great.
If she had work done, it was by a master.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.